liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food an unfortunate situation; "we're in the soup now" any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup dope (a racehorse)
Soup is liquid food made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables in water. home-made chicken soup. soup up to improve something, especially a car, by making it more powerful
{i} liquid food made by simmering various ingredients (i.e. fish, chicken, etc.) with vegetables and spices, broth; thick fog (Slang); nitroglycerine (Slang); trouble, misfortune, chaotic situation
(99/12/30) soup line - soup kitchen The team won the sales competition with souped - up actions in the soup : When the manager overdrew their bank account without telling his boss, the company found itself in the soup (reference : 99/12/12 Monday Nikkei s47)
[ 'süp ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English soupe, from Middle French, sop, soup, of Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse soppa soup, Old English sopp sop; more at SUP.